Prime Minister Mark Carney said Wednesday he doesn’t have confidence in FIFA President Gianni Infantino to lead world soccer’s governing body, after a now-abandoned plan to sell stakes in the World Cup to private investors.
Carney told reporters at an event in Toronto that keeping the sell-off plan a secret from senior FIFA staff was a “fatal” move on Infantino’s part and “not how you run any business … let alone something that is a global responsibility like football.”
“I’ve run a few organizations in my time,” the prime minister said. “The idea that proper governance is not to disclose to your closest advisers, your chief operating officer…
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